Get Smart

The play was a huge successÑthe audience was in stitches throughout the production. Finally, the multiple locations were simple to stage with some creativity.

Richard Gage, Struthers High School, Struthers, Ohio

Quick-moving action with a sense of humor that really applealed to high schoolers. A huge hit with our audience! Easy to stage and fun to go all out on the costumes.

April Wright, Patrick Henry College Teen Leadership Camp, Purcellville, Va.

It's a fun-packed show that the actors and audience thoroughly enjoyed. It was relatively easy to produce and was not expensive.

Elizabeth Hoffmaster, Cochrane-Fountain City School District, Fountain City, Wis.

Get Smart was one of the most fun shows we have ever produced!Ñfor the cast and crew as well as for the audience. It was great to see our faculty and parents especially relate to the whole project, from the casting through the run of the show.

Jeanne Parrott, Noble High School, Noble, Okla.

Get Smart is a hilarious comedy that was very appropriate for our community theater. It's easy to produce and has a great variety of slapstick comedy to blunt comedy to the subtle and serious commentary. Great variety of character types to fit just about any actors that come into auditions.

Jeff Driscoll, Arc Light Productions, Mapleton, Ill.

Get Smart is a very funny show, easily staged and ideal for a mixed cast. Novice and experienced actors had a chance to grow as performers. The students enjoyed learning about the original show and putting their own spin on the classic gags and characters.

John Cosper, Christian Academy of Indiana, New Albany, Ind.

AWESOME show for teen-agers!!! Lots of zany characters and physical comedyÑentertaining for the cast and audiences alike!! This was a real crowd pleaser and very simple to produce!!

Carol-Ann Black, Showbiz Starz, Allen Park, Mich.

We had a blast with this play! The quirkier you can make the characters, the better. It's really quite simple to stage, and the script is great with very detailed stage directions. This is a great adaptation, based on the first two episodes of the 60's TV series that remains true to the basic comedy of that show.

Jeannie Henry, Reed-Custer High School, Morris, Ill.

This show was so much fun to do! It's all brand new to today's high school kids and a great revisit to those of us who were fans of the TV show. My 'stage' is really a lecture hall but the sets required are minimal and give plenty of opportunities for creative, portable design. Our audiences raved.

Jan R. Laurie-Russell, Foothill High School, Santa Ana, Calif.

This classic comedy delighted our audiences - both young and old - and was a fun play for our middle school performers! They captured the essence of the original characters and gave two brilliant performances of this wonderfully written play. Many in the audience said it was their best play yet!

Laura Snider, Nittany Christian School, State College, Pa.

It was a blast! Extremely well received and entertaining! The audience laughed and laughed. It sounded like a laugh track on a sitcom.

Jonathan Dyck, Landmark Collegiate High School, Landmark, Manitoba, Canada

Once the kids realized it's like Austin Powers meets Inspector Gadget they really got into all the silly, corny jokes. It's timeless.

Lisa Greenwood, West Junior High School, Lawrence Kansas.

It went very well. The dialogue was crisp and funny. The acting was excellent. What a great show!

Michael Altmann, Edison Intermediate School, Westfield, N.J.

In twenty years of doing shows, I don't know when we've had more fun. Actors loved it; students and parents thought it was hilarious. Thanks!

Kathleen Ryan, Northridge High School, Layton, Utah

Silly fun for audience members 5 to 95. Includes all the gags and fun from the original television series.

Laura LaChappelle, Bradshaw Mountain High School, Humboldt, Ariz.

A delightful comedy that incorporates all the characters, cliches and gadgets that we loved from the television series.

Lucas Matney, Dream Chasers, North Wilkesboro, N.C.

My students did not grow up with Maxwell Smart, but through the magic of Nick at Nite, they were able to revisit Control headquarters. Actors and audience alike loved the shoe phone and trash can scenes. Get Smart was a big hit.

Pam Lyng, Hannibal Middle School, Hannibal, Mo.

This production was an excellent play for a dinner theatre. The audience responded very well, enjoying every scene. This play is very appropriate for a high school performance. Its fast pace, full comedy and easy set make it a fun, low stressful event. The cast of high school seniors loved performing this play.

Kay Roseberry, West Side School, Greers Ferry, Ark.